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Sunday, September 29 1:00-3:00PM
Lawyer-turned-author Marlene discusses the resources and methods she used in both writing "Most Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans' Home of New Orleans" (LSU Press, 2023) the first comprehensive history of the nation's earliest purpose-built Jewish orphanage and also sharing stories of some of the 1623 children and 24 widows who lived there from 1856 to 1946. Based on her research, Trestman will also offer suggestions for pursuing information about former residents of America's nearly fifty other Jewish orphanages...
Speaker: Orphaned at age 11, Marlene Trestman (https://www.marlenetrestman.com) grew up in New Orleans as a beneficiary of the Jewish Children's Regional Service (JCRS), the social service agency that succeeded the Jewish Orphans' Home in which legal trailblazer Bessie Margolin grew up. Like Margolin, Trestman attended the Isidore Newman School, which the Home established to educate Jewish orphans alongside children from the community whose parents paid tuition.
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